Cloth button



. pushed together with the cloth over the supsupport. A20

Patented Feb. 27, 1923.

ERNSTl KUcKEIisiaEEG', or; EnBnRrEL-n, Amiincuntirueimnsiinei;or* :nARiviEN-,j

GERMANY, ASSIGNORS TO NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP VEREENIGDE vKN'OO-ZPIEN- EN BANDFABRIEKEN, OFNYKER-K,NETHERLANDS. Y y

CLOTH BUTTON. l

To all whom. t may concern:

Be it known that we, ERNST KUGKELSBERG and PAUL KUCKELSBERG, citizens of the German Republic residing, respectively, at Elberfeld and armen, Germany, haver invented certain Improvements in Cloth Buttons (for which We have liled an application in Germany on April 26th, 1921), of which the following is a specification. y Buttons composed of a domed support vto which a cloth cover is attachedv are sometimesv fitted with a spring ring which is port and which is retained thereon as a fastening for the cloth and as a complementary part of the button. Inother cases the cloth.

is fixed by means of a closing plate which is clamped together with the cloth to the The present of the latter kind and consists essentially in the employment of a spring ring with overlapping: ends which is adapted to be slid support fromtheback so as. to retain the cloth *in its'proper position while the' closing l plate'is attached, the ring being adapted to exert pressure on the oloth from the outside y of the support'while applied and from the.

inside of the same when in its nalposition.

As the ring fis* completely concealed toi gether with., theendsrof the'cloth within the finished button, vit can be made of ordinary steel wire which enables the cloth to be conveniently and aultlessly applied to the support by the mere use of the hands'wthout tools. Y" Y i lTo provide Vfor different ythicknesses of cloth, the closing plate is moreover slit radially so that it can giveand allow of being pressed into positionV by hand even when the cloth happens to be of considerable thickness. 1 n v v v Fig. l of the drawings representsfai verti-v p cal section ofthe button,

Fig. 2,5abotto1n View of the'same, Fig. 3, a side view-ofthe spring, i Fig. 4, a plan of the latter, and

invention relates to a buttony The .ring is preferably support, .cloth iny uniformly stretched. l Y

To enable the losingpla'teb tobe used Figs; 5 and 6, views showing different stages in the making of the button.

The button, as Vsupplied to the user, is composed of three parts, a domed hollow support a, a. 'closin plate b, ,anda spring ring o, the latter being preferably made out of line, strong steel wire.' The ends'of the spring are loosel and overlap, as shown inl Fig.3. To complete Vthe buttonwhen required, a piece of'cloth dis laid over the support a, and thel ring' cis passed vover the covered support by means of the thumb nails, yasy shown in Fig. 5, so asto stretch A.the cloth evenly overthe' support. Thenthe button is turned. over, 'as shownf in Figi 6, andthe ring is pushed together with lthe edges of j the cloth` into thehollow of the; support. l

4 The cloth' will Vthen vbe lheld in position by 1 the ring while' theclosingplate b, Awhich formsthe permanent fastening for the cloth,

is pressed into position. 1 j

eter asi the support so thatrit' can exert pres# sure onthe cloth` frointhe inside'of the support as well as fromv the outside.' It is made longienough fory the ends to :overlap even when passing over the widestV part of the of the Same' dlian# Vas shown in 'Fig'.n', sok that the withYV equal convenience and eect fon-thick as well as forQthin cloth, it` isjpreferably z formed withradial Vslits ejso that Ait can give.

The edge of the plate .may'for the same purpose be ormed'with a lresilient bead of l yU-shaped cross-section.,

V'1. A 610th button emprisingfa., domedv hollow support, a spring ring with overlappingends adapted, first to loe` pushed over the cloth-covered support'y for'stretohing .the cloth evenly overthe latter'and then tobe pressed together with the edge of the cloth into the interiorfof the' support, and a clos-l ing Plate adapted to be pushed'behind-ItheA l i ring'into the support :for ixing the cloth",`

in position, substantially asset forth.V v2.v A cloth button comprising' a doomed hollow support, a spring'ring withoverlap7 ping ends adapted, rst to beipushed over the cloth-Covered Support for stretching the cloth evenly on the latter and` then to be pressed together with the edge of the eloth being' adapte'dfto exert pressure on-the cloth from the outside of the support wh1le applied .andlfrom the ins1de when mits final 5 into the interior' of the suppoit,"theringv 

